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Versatile adds easy financing to its reputation for easy servicing

Saving time and resources is important to today’s food producers. And now, Versatile has added new programs that do both. Farming more acres than ever before, individual producers have to cover a lot of ground in a short time. Their success depends on speed, and time saved with easy, efficient servicing. This equals more hours
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Versatile’s 4WD line

With all Versatile tractors adopting new family styling, the 4WD series now sports a look matching that of their big brothers in the high-horsepower tractor (HHT) line. Along with their new look the four models in this group offer 305, 340, 375 and 400 horsepower, plus the advantages of new and improved design. Underneath that
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Auger-Steer wins Inventor’s Showcase

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Brandon With grain augers and conveyors going the way of farms – getting bigger – the days when a couple of farmhands could hoist them up and manoeuvre them around the yard and into position are gone. And using tractors to move them around corners and buildings in tight yards is no easy task either,
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Listeria investigator announced

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It took almost four months but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has got someone to investigate the Maple Leaf Foods listeria outbreak of last summer. Just how Sheila Weatherill, former president and CEO of Capital Health in Edmonton, will investigate the outbreak that killed 20 and sickened at least 50 more may be a secret until
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of efficient and durable design

Providing farmers with quality equipment based on simple design and innovative engineering has long been a tradition synonymous with the Versatile name. In fact, that is exactly how the company got its start. Peter Pakosh, one of the two founders, first used that principle to design a revolutionary new grain auger in the basement of
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CFIA, union butt heads on food safety

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ottawa The Canadian Food Inspection Union and one of its main unions are again butting heads over food safety. The quarrel started back in the summer when the two sides were in contract negotiations and the disagreement escalated during the Maple Leaf listeria outbreak. The Agriculture Union of the Public Service Alliance of Canada wants
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Just like the old days

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There was absolutely nothing to eat in our kitchen. Our fridge was bare with not a trace of milk, meat or bread. My toddler’s first response was one of wide-eyed wonder and concern as he stared at our fridge’s emptiness. I assured him we would survive. Our freezer was bursting in the garage and our
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Reduce, reuse and recycle

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Let’s face it, we all produce garbage, and we are all part of the problem. The good news is that we can also be part of the solution. Studies show that 65 per cent of “garbage” can be recycled or composted instead of tossed. Instead of throwing away items we no longer need, why not
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Air filters can help contain disease

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Air filters are working to keep pigs safe from porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS), Dr. Scott Dee of the University of Minnesota told a recent industry day organized by the Ontario Pork Industry Council (OPIC). The lab and research farm results are confirmed by farm experience, said veterinarian Darwin Reicks of the nine-veterinarian Swine

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